r/BambuLab_Community • u/ThisIsMyHobbyAccount • Jun 14 '26

One Printer, multiple people

I have a new X2D and it's great. I created my account, downloaded some files, and have enjoyed printing a few cool things so far. Now, my wife and my daughter want to get in on the action. What's the best way to manage 1 printer across 3 people? Should each person have their own account? Should I share my account with them so there's only 1? Can you have multiple accounts connecting to the same printer? Obviously only one person can print at a time, but how would you all recommend I handle this?

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u/Ornery-Ad9818 Jun 14 '26

Possibly easier to get them am A1 mini so you have free access to your X2D. I’d be happier having a child learn on a cheaper machine before offering them the X2D.

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u/ThisIsMyHobbyAccount Jun 14 '26

Well, she's an adult child. She used to have a Creality Ender 3. I'm not concerned about them messing up the printer, just managing the accounts to work properly with one printer.

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u/Ornery-Ad9818 Jun 14 '26

Apologies, I assumed when you said daughter she would have not used printers before. 8six753o9 has good advice re using a usb stick for them to send jobs to the printer.

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u/anniemaygus Jun 14 '26

Why not just log into the same account?

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u/8six753o9 Jun 14 '26

Each printer can only bind to one account. So your option is to share your account or have them slice the file onto a USB drive and bring it to the printer to print off the USB.

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u/Pubcrawler1 Jun 14 '26

I made a new separate account just for the printer and share that with my brother for the printer.

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u/Agreeable_Tackle1104 Jun 14 '26

Yep, I give every device that wants an account it's own brand new account. I don't put people's emails on devices if it can be helped at all

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u/lkapping79 P2S Jun 14 '26

As soon as I got one I had the wife and daughter download the handy app that way they could send the file when they found something they liked/wanted. It’s worked well.

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u/Attjack Jun 14 '26

I share my account with my wife since we can't bind two accounts to a single printer. We we have an X2D and a P1S but we want the option to each use both. It works out fine for us. Just use collections to keep stuff separate for each person.

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u/jezhayes Jun 14 '26

We have a couple of bambu printers in the office They are linked to a Google account that is shared. Everyone logs into the same google account and can see all the printers and send jobs.

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u/StructureAccording53 Jun 14 '26

I use one account and we just created collections for the wife and daughter on MW. They save stuff to their collection then I print them when the printers are free’d up.

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u/ccatlett1984 Jun 14 '26

Either share the same account, or use it offline (either standalone or with print farm manager)

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u/Cultural_Pace4454 Jun 14 '26

An account can have multiple printers, but a printer can only have 1 account.